About Us

The Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis was established in 1951, with the aims of promoting and assisting the development of the science of psychoanalysis and its clinical practice in Sydney.

Since the mid 1980s it has been able to undertake activities to foster interest in, and knowledge about psychoanalysis in the wider community.

The Sydney Institute has organised

• public lectures given by distinguished psychoanalysts and other experts;
• lectures, seminars and workshops for those who are interested in applying psychoanalytic principles to their work, and
• supervision for psychotherapists and other mental health workers.

The training of psychoanalysts is the function of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society under the auspices of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Membership of the Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis and the Sydney Branch of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society is identical.

The Australian Psychoanalytical Society is an incorporated association and functions according to its formally constituted rules, bye laws and procedures. The Society has an Executive Committee and a number of standing committees which ensure that standards of training, clinical and ethical practice meet the requirements for Component Society status within the IPA. The Society has Branches in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

There is a Scientific Committee, an Education Co-ordinating Committee, and an Ethics and Professional Standards Committee. Scientific life is also promoted by a Scholarship and Research Committee and a Publications Committee.

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